Editor’s note: Mac would have been happy this morning, and I am trusting that somewhere he is. The Iowa Hawkeyes knocked off my Michigan Wolverines in a tiresome reprise of some games back in the 1980s. People are still rioting in the Pacific Northwest, though I honestly can’t imagine why. Maybe it is something else […]

12 November 2016 Editor’s Note: Apparently there is still rioting over the refusal of some citizens to accept the results of the election. I vividly recall all the Republican pouring out into the street back in 2008 to protest, smash the windows protecting small businesses and vandalize automobiles….oh, wait. That never happened. Never mind. Whatever […]

Editor’s Note: It is Veterans Day, and one of contemplation. There have been two nights of protest in the streets about the election, some of them violent. I knew this wouldn’t be over, even with the results seemingly final. They were not interrupted by attacks, cyber or terrorist, and there few reports of anything but […]

Editor’s Note: We have to tiptoe around some of the things that Mac did during the more than a dozen years that composed the second part of his intelligence career. There had been some pretty strange things going on, at the behest of Presidents and others, and some whistles were being blown. Mac’s role was […]

Editor’s Note: This is a historic day, for good or ill. The pollsters were wrong. Hillary Clinton is not the President-elect. That is not what I thought when I went to bed, and I woke for the usual reason around 0330 and lay there in dark, wondering what had happened. The House? The Senate? I […]

Editor’s Note: Seemed like it was appropriate on this day to re-live our last election day with Admiral Showers. It was November of 2011, and we gathered, as usual, at Willow for a festive glass and raucous conversation. mac was feisty and full of energy. I recall there was a sense of optimism in the […]

07 November 2016 Editor’s Note: Well, tomorrow is election day and with luck, all this unpleasantness will be wrapped up by midnight. Hahaha- just funning with you. The FBI apparently went through the 650,000 emails on the computer that senior aide Huma Abedin’s shared with her disgraced husband. I am relieved, of course, that a […]

Editor’s Note: This was written almost six years ago, to the day. Things were very different then, more so than I can even imagine. Liz-S is now an attorney for the IG of one of the large agencies around town, and regularly is on the civilian side of the bar. Mac is gone, as you […]

Editor’s Note: It is taking everything I have got to avoid thinking about the election, pitting Tumble Dee against Tumble Doh is a desperate play for all the marbles. I have never seen anything like it, and pray that none of us see anything like this again. We followed Mac and his family across the […]

Editor’s Note: I am looking out the window of the Mimslyn Hotel, a grand institution in Luray, Virginia. The Blue Ridge mountains beckon in the distance beyond the pool and the hot tub, dotted with the brilliant color of the and the air is fresh after last night’s rain. This is a lovely part of […]